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Why (& how) do Static and Dynamic testing complement each other.
Why (& how) do Static and Dynamic testing complement each other.
Not much more, simple question.
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4answers
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Do you test using VM, User Agent, MutlipleIE etc?
Since it is not possible to acquire all s/w and h/w under the sun, we often resort to using virtual machine, user agent, multiple IE etc.
I have had instance when I did not find an application ...
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6answers
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Software testing and QA podcasts
In a similar vein to the question blogs to follow to further learning, I would like to ask if there are any noteworthy testing podcasts? Searching in iTunes domes up pretty empty on the topic.
I know ...
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11answers
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How do you provide proper tests when there is little documentation
I've worked for companies that have little documentation for their applications, and most of it is probably comments in code.
How is a person, who is placed in the quality assurance department, ...
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2answers
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Approaches to Testing a Scientific Library
I'm quite interested in the Scipy/Numpy project which is basically a Python scientific computation/numerical methods library. I'm also interested in testing. What are some good approaches for testing ...
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1answer
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BDD with 3rd party services
I am developing a asp.net mvc site that depends deeply on a 3rd party web service.
I would like to know what is the best approach to develop this site since the web service is not ready yet and I ...
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4answers
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Testing interactions with external systems
I'm trying to find a way to test the interactions of our platform with external servers, like Twitter, for example.
On our online photo sharing application, we have, for example features which let ...
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7answers
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What is meant by “Automated tests don't find new bugs”?
As I understand it, this sentence means that automated tests don't find new bugs in existing code (though they might catch a new bug in new code that breaks old code). Is this correct? Or is this ...
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2answers
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How can I run my Selenium 1 FF Profile in Selenium 2 C#?
So right now to run my Selenium 1 tests I use a custom Firefox Profile that sets when I launch my Selenium Server.
Is there a way to properly set this profile to run in Selenium 2? I've tried setting ...
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2answers
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What would be a good test Orchestration tool for Python unit tests
what comes to mind is Make, or build.xml, but have not found a comprehensive Orchestration tool for python testing
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2answers
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Testing Distributed Systems
I understand and practice most normal testing methodologies, however for systems with several distinct interacting processes testing obviously becomes a lot harder. Unit testing is often not possible, ...
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3answers
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A way to match on text using CSS locators
So I use xpath locators and slowly converting to CSS.
I haven't found a way to do an exact match based on text.
For example converting //a[text()='Log Out'].
I know you can do css=a:contains('Log ...
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6answers
856 views
What factors should affect the ratio of QA/Test staff vs. App Developers
I've worked in a variety of environments with differing ratios of QA / SDET personnel vs. developers focused on building and maintaining application features.
Is there such a thing as a "right" ...
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8answers
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How do you calculate your return on investment on automated tests?
I've been looking at calculating the ROI on automated test on a project that I've been working on. However, I'm a little stuck when it comes to determining a good method for this. Simply counting the ...
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3answers
755 views
Android application testing
I have been working as Android developer and been presenting about Android testing with the main SDK tooling, Robotium and Robolectric and running builds on Hudson. It looks like there is a lot of ...
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11answers
614 views
Blogs to follow to further learning [closed]
I've tried my best to keep this question non-subjective so am not asking which blogs are definitively "the BEST" but instead am using the opportunity to just try to broaden my scope of reading around ...
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2answers
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What data-driven techniques exist for determining that enough testing has been done?
I have seen some SQA groups use defect arrival or "discovery" rates in order to determine whether a piece of software is ready to be released. The idea is that the rate at which defects are uncovered ...
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2answers
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Can external object repository be used with dynamic objects?
I have heard as well as followed concept of keeping UI objects in external filed (xml or properties files in java). But there are times when I need to keep the objects with in test because I use them ...
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2answers
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Testing NOSQL DB's like distributed Cassandra
Has anybody worked on testing Cassandra DB which is a NOSQL distributed DB?
What are the important things to be taken into account while doing this?
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1answer
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Looking for a valuable Mockito tutorial
I'm looking for a good Mockito tutorial. I found some things, but either they are incomplete (which means: if you need something a bit more complicated than the basics, forget it), or they are badly ...
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2answers
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Maintaining automation framework for different browsers like IE and FF
How to maintain automation framework for different browsers like IE and FF?
In my current set up, I maintain two different configuration properties files, one with xpath locators that FF supports ...
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5answers
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How often do you run long automated user acceptance tests?
Let's say you have product or project that is coming near to a next release and that has previous versions released a while ago and that has a big suite of automated user acceptance tests that just ...
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3answers
1k views
Attach to browser not spawned by Selenium2
One of the things that I miss about WatiN is the ability to attach to browser instances that were not spawned by Selenium. In my last position, this was the whole reason why I used WatiN, as the ...
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4answers
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How can I report coverage on an n-dimensional test matrix?
I have a test matrix for my product's installation, which is n-dimensional, where n is about 11 or 12 at this point. For instance, the OS is one dimension, and the DB is another, and the Reporting ...
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4answers
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Testing techniques repository?
I was wondering if there are any repositories or wikis of formal testing techniques - test design ideas, like pairwise or boundary. I couldn't find one so far.
Thanks!
Ahmet
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9answers
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Security testing resources
Can anyone recommend any good security testing resources? Although I have a basic security skillset, I'd like to improve this. Some of the training I've seen online however seems kind of sketchy. ...
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Good resources for traditional testers adapting to an Agile environment
I haven't experienced a transition from waterfall to Agile myself - I worked for companies using Prince2, waterfall approaches to managing projects, and then I got a job working for a company using ...
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1answer
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Alternatives to ISEB
I can see why the community can sort of look down on the ISEB exams (at least the Foundation - I haven't looked at the material for any of the others). So I got to wondering exactly what similar ...
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Where can I find information on getting started with Selenium 2
Some background. I am a long time WatiN coder, and have been since I first looked a Selenium a few versions ago, and decided that it didn't meet my needs, then went with WatiN.
I now want to switch ...
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5answers
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Business analysts commonly do testing work, should testers be involved in analysis work?
In my experience, Business Analysts (BA's) are commonly used to perform "happy path" testing when an application is developed.
Should the reverse also be true with testers being (more) involved and ...
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1answer
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Firefox (3.6) not loading Flash when running Selenium2 tests
I've seen several mentions of an issue when running tests in Firefox: the Flash player doesn't load the SWF if the browser window doesn't have focus. This causes sporadic test failures if the system ...
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2answers
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Measuring test performance when there is high variance
I am running single purpose performance tests on a daily basis. Currently, I run each test 3 times and average them out. But I get fluctuations from day to day which make it difficult to detect ...
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3answers
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Handling self-refreshing pages from selenium
I have been running into intermittent errors with some java selenium-rc tests which I think are related to a page which has an ajax poll and automatically refreshes when some condition is reached on ...
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QTP vs Selenium [closed]
I have largely worked with Selenium for front end automation. Looks like there is great market for QTP in this arena, especially when you could afford commercial tools. Have you worked with both QTP ...
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Which locator do you use with Selenium CSS or XPath?
I have heard that, when using Selenium, the CSS Locator has better performance than the XPath Locator. Which Locator do you use in your tests? Have you seen a great performance improvement when using ...
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UAT involvement
This isn't really a question for me anymore, but, out of curiousity and to help a former co-worker.
Before moving to Quality Assurance, I led a UAT team. This team was made up of former users, who ...
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1answer
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How can I change the dates used in TFS 2010 SharePoint portal's burndown excel chart?
We have a TFS 2010 project (MSF Agile v5.0 template) project, the SSRS reports for burndown allow us to specify start and end dates for the current iteration, but the project portals excel charts ...
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How to deal with automation naysayers?
In my team, there are a number of experienced QA people. I work mostly on developing tools to make the QA process easier for these guys, such as developing test automation.
The uptake has been slow, ...
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Estimating a testing project
How do you estimate a testing project? What are the things to be take care of while estimating the time for a testing project ?
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Capturing screen shots in selenium tests
How do you use screen shot capture in selenium tests? If anyone is using, how effective do you find it ?
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What's the difference between “testing” and “quality assurance”?
Is there a difference between "testing" and "quality assurance"? If so, what are the main goals of each process? What are the critical differences?
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Functional tests for Flash
We are using a rich client developed with Flex. We would like to build automated tests to test whole features. I saw a module for Selenium, Flex Monkium, which could do the job.
Did you try it out? ...
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What are the advantages of automated user acceptance tests?
I'm completely new to this stuff, and for what I've seen it takes a while to get used to it.
I once tried, but felt I was spending way too much time just writing the tests, or just fixing them 'cause ...
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Does writing “Given” “When” “Then” BDD style test cases scale up to larger, end-to-end scenarios
Traditionally, structured test, especially long scenarios are commonly written in the step, expected, actual format.
Behaviour Driven Design replaces this with the style of "Given", "When" "Then", ...
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5answers
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Should end-to-end tests be self-contained?
I am automating web UI tests using Selenium. These tests are written partly in the spirit of Unit tests, that is they try their best to leave the application in the same state in which they found it. ...
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11answers
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In house built testing tools
I've been having to deal with a lot of testing tools lately for testing tasks that should/must be automated. These include things like performance/load testing, webservice testing, vulnerability ...
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How to deal with testers who do more than test
In my firm, we don't have testers, exactly. We have analysts who translate business requirements into specifications. (Think the guy from Office Space, except these guys actually provide some value. ...
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Suggestions for “Selling” TDD, and FDD to sceptical non engineering managers
Let's say you are a developer (specifically, the team lead) and you want to improve the quality of your company's products. Since you cannot change the whole company, you focus on what you and your ...
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How can I teach QTP to treat a control as another similar control?
I have a third party check box control in my AUT that QTP does not recognize. Is there a way to have QTP treat it as a regular .NET check box?
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How do you wait for jQuery Ajax calls to complete in Selenium 2
I use Selenium 2 in C# to automate testing of our web sites. When building non-Ajax functionality, using webDriver.FindElement(By.Id("element-id")) to find elements on a page works fine, but when ...
